Label marked " LIVER AND STOMACH / PILLS / DOSE:- / ONE OR TWO / AT NIGHT". White text on red label with white trim. The number"18" is printed in weak black ink on top.
Seal around box reads "RELIABLE" and contains content info. Red text on white label. Some decorative design with illustration. Bottom of box marked "FROM / DRUG / SALES". in black on box.
Label marked " LIVER AND STOMACH / PILLS / DOSE:- / ONE OR TWO / AT NIGHT". White text on red label with white trim. The number"18" is printed in weak black ink on top.
Seal around box reads "RELIABLE" and contains content info. Red text on white label. Some decorative design with illustration. Bottom of box marked "FROM / DRUG / SALES". in black on box.
Label marked " LIVER AND STOMACH / PILLS / DOSE:- / ONE OR TWO / AT NIGHT". White text on red label with white trim. The number"18" is printed in weak black ink on top.
Seal around box reads "RELIABLE" and contains content info. Red text on white label. Some decorative design with illustration. Bottom of box marked "FROM / DRUG / SALES". in black on box.
Label marked " INDIGESTION / AND / WIND / PILLS / DOSE:- / ONE PILL / AFTER / MEALS". White text on red label with white trim. The number"18" is printed in weak black ink on top.
Seal around box reads "RELIABLE" and contains content info. Red text on white label. Some decorative design with illustration. Bottom of box marked "FROM / DRUG / SALES". in black on box.
Label marked " INDIGESTION / AND / WIND / PILLS / DOSE:- / ONE PILL / AFTER / MEALS." White text on red label with white trim. The number"18" is printed in weak black ink on top.
Seal around box reads "RELIABLE" and contains content info. Red text on white label. Some decorative design with illustration. Bottom of box marked "FROM / DRUG / SALES". in black on box.
Label marked " CONSTIPATION / PILLS / DOSE:- / ONE OR TWO / AT NIGHT". White text on red label with white trim. The number"18" is printed in weak black ink on top.
Seal around box reads "RELIABLE" and contains content info. Red text on white label. Some decorative design with illustration. Bottom of box marked "FROM / DRUG / SALES". in black on box.
Label marked " ANTIBILIOUS / PILLS / DOSE:- / ONE TO FOUR / AT NIGHT". White text on red label with white trim. The number"18" is printed in weak black ink on top.
Seal around box reads "RELIABLE" and contains content info. Red text on white label. Some decorative design with illustration. Bottom of box marked "FROM / DRUG / SALES". in black on box.
Nut-shaped, coiled cedar root basket with cedar root foundation and watch-spring base and lid construction. Hinged lid is attached with leather ties. Covered in beading, where in the decorative elements are laid flat on surface, rather than folded into cedar root stitches as is done with imbrication. Designs are in red and black dyed cherry bark.
Interior Salish: Nlaka’pamux
Object History
Nut-shaped baskets are identified as one of the oldest types by Haeberlin and Teit (1928: 202-3). They were used for storing berries and were also common work baskets for women, used to hold small tools – awls, thread, shells, trinkets and other odds and ends (202).
Rectangular coiled cedar root basket with cedar slat foundation, lid has parallel slat construction and is covered with beaded designs edged by imbrication in canary grass. Basket has a flat lid that is hinged to body with leather ties. A mistake was made in how the design was applied to one end of this basket. This is not common as many weavers would correct this mistake. Completely imbricated walls, beaded design on lid.
Coast Salish: Sḵwx̱wú7mesh?
Object History
The donor reported that the baskets were traded in the early 1920s for clothes by the donor's mother, who lived in North Vancouver. Her mother told her the "Capilano Indians" used to go door to door with their baskets in North Vancouver.
Diamonds are considered a star pattern and are common to Sḵwx̱wú7mesh and Nlaka’pamux basketry. The main design resembles a ladder or fence and is uncommon.
Rectangular coiled cedar root basket with cedar slat foundation. Parallel slat base and lid. Walls of basket flare slightly towards the rim. Basket has a conoid lid – one that fits over top of a flange on the rim of the basket. Rim is inset. Sets of triangular shaped stitches attach base to walls. Base of basket is protected by a foot, one slat high. Grass used for imbricated designs has a flat appearance typical of cattail grass. Black dyed and red cherry bark used for other design elements. Handles missing.
Object History
Design variant is uncommon. This may be a zoomorphic design possibly representing an animal head or flying bird.
basket with lid; First Nations basket with lid; The basket is round, with two handles opposite each other. The handles are wrapped twine. The wrapping is missing from one handle. The lid has a knob handle in the centre. Basket and lid are decorated with a dark and light spiraling pattern. Had been used for storing knitting.
Object History
The basket was acquired by the donor's grandparents, Matilda and Robert William Handel, when they were living in North Vancouver. They were made by one of the local First Nations weavers, name unknown.
basket with lid; First Nations basket with lid; The basket is round, with a single handle (opposite handle is missing). The lid has a knob handle in the centre. Basket and lid are decorated with a dark and light spiraling pattern. Had been used for storing knitting.
Object History
The basket was acquired by the donor's grandparents, Matilda and Robert William Handel, when they were living in North Vancouver. They were made by one of the local First Nations weavers, name unknown.
Trapezoidal shaped, coiled cedar root basket with cedar slat foundation. Finished with an overcast rim with root foundation. Design elements missing from one side of the basket, which is uncommon but has been seen on cradles from the Mount Currie area (Interior Salish: Lil'wat). It was perhaps the side that rests on the wearer's back. Steeply angled sides.
The donor reported that the baskets were traded in the early 1920s for clothes by the donor's mother, who lived in North Vancouver. Her mother told her the "Capilano Indians" used to go door to door with their baskets in North Vancouver.
Design elements missing from one side of the basket – possibly the side that would have rested against the owner’s back.
Steeply angled sides keep berries from crushing those at bottom of basket. Work baskets have sides that are more rounded.
Baskets like these were used with a woven tumpline (wool strap) that was worn against the forehead, while basket was carried on back.
Box. Flat, rectangular, metal box with hinged lid, for cigarettes. Lid is gold in colour with blue border. Upper left corner of lid features a blue circle with raised double portrait of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in profile. Inside of lid has logo of sailor framed by life preserver.
Object History
Donor purchased objects from various collectors and antique retailers.
Marks/Labels
Both sides of lid have "PLAYER'S "MEDIUM"". Lower right of lid "Player's" "NAVY CUT" "CIGARETTES" ""MEDIUM"". Back of lid "MANUFACTURED BY IMPERIAL TOBACCO CO. OF CANADA, LIMITED, MONTREAL, CANADA" "SUCCESSOR TO JOHN PLAYER & SONS, ENGLAND" "CONTAINER MADE IN ENGLAND".
Blank Cartridges - Box. Small buff coloured box with red text, for Winchester .22 Blank Cartridges ammunition. The cartridges are marketed as "EXTRA LOUD" and there were 50 cartridges to a box. The cartridges were manufactured by Winchester Repeating Arms Company in New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A.
Object History
Owner worked in theatre including Barkerville (when a museum). Probably for theatrical use.
Octagon shaped box of chocolates with a floral pattern and coral trim. On the bottom of the box is the company's logo "Ganong's/ CHOCOLATES/ The Gift of/ Gladness!"